If you find yourself on an unreliable Internet connection and need to
perform a fresh clone of Linux.git, you may find it tricky to do so if
your connection resets before you are able to complete the clone. There
is currently no way to resume a git clone using git, but there is a neat
trick you can use instead of cloning directly -- using git bundle
files.

Here is how you would do it.

Start with "wget -c", which tells wget to continue interrupted
downloads. If your connection resets, just rerun the same command while
in the same directory, and it will pick up where it left off: